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You are where you’ve been |
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Technological threats to your location privacy |
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Authorised By :: School of Surveying & Spatial Information Systems
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M.G. Michael Ph.D., MA(Hons), MTh, BTh, BA is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Information Systems and Technology, at the University of Wollongong, Australia with cross-disciplinary qualifications in the humanities. He is the former coordinator of Information & Communication Security Issues and since 2005 has guest-lectured and tutored in Location-Based Services, IT & Citizen Rights, IT & Innovation and Principles of eBusiness. He has presented papers at numerous IEEE conferences including the International Conference on Mobile Business, the International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking, and RFID Eurasia. More recently Dr Michael was invited to deliver a paper at the 29th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (ubiquitous computing track) in Canada. Michael has been the recipient of a number of scholarships and awards. He is a member of the Research Network for a Secure Australia (RNSA), and the American Academy of Religion (AAR). |
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Überveillance: 24/7 x 365 People Tracking and Monitoring
Abstract Advanced location-based services (A-LBS) for humancentric tracking and monitoring are now emerging as operators and service providers begin to leverage their existing infrastructure and invest in new technologies, toward increasingly innovative location application solutions. We can now point to humancentric tracking and monitoring services where the person (i.e. subject) has become an active node in the network. For example, in health applications through the use of embedded technologies such as radio-frequency identification (RFID) or in campus applications through the use of electronic monitoring techniques in the form of global positioning systems (GPS). These technologies, for the greater part, have been introduced into society at large, without the commensurate assessment of what they will mean in terms of socio-ethical implications. Of particular concern is the potential for these innovative solutions to be applied in government-to-citizen mandated services, increasing the ability of the state to collect targeted data and conduct covert surveillance on any given individual, described herein as überveillance. This seminar aims to define, describe, and interpret the current socio-ethical landscape of advanced location-based services for humans in order to promote discourse among researchers and practitioners to better direct telecommunications policy. |
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M.G. Michael
Honorary Fellow School of Information Technology & Computer Science Faculty of Informatics University of Wollongong |
